Headway is Headway, making it look "Un-Complicated". I'm glad I'm not building your Cat, Tiny House is enuff for my mental condition, Beautiful Country you got to visit and I enjoyed the chatter about it all. Keep safe and stay on track, no jumping into white water !!
Wow a great video! Much cooler on the less on camera. Lots of interesting info to see while you speak. Love Slovenia. Tell your wife it’s very pretty and she is too.
Hah, thanks Jon. I have started a more detailed channel looking at composites and their use in industry etc. All coming soon. "The Composites Shop", stay tuned. Videos are there for Patreons at this stage, and releasing form February .
Great stuff fella, those bulkheads are beautiful. A few episodes back you said Yay! no more climbing up and down the bilges. I thought I heard something in the background, turns out it was the bulkheads laughing ;)
Hey Tim.I have just spent another two weeks in the bilges again.It is now not a joke.I need to get up off the hill floor and glue these floors down.Have a great Christmas buddy and thanks for joining me this year.Cheers Ross
The rate of accelerating progress feels truly amazing ever since you finished up in the bilges and it’s fantastic to see the real recognizable boat coming together. Keep up the great work. Really fun to follow along and thanks for sharing.
Thank you Peter, Although I thought I was finished in the bilges, alas , that was a big mistake on my behalf, lots more scrambling to come. Cheers Buddy. Ross
🤣 Ha! ".. moved the camera's 3 times and forgot the measurement" funny bugger! I usually measure 3 times to save my skin! All of the things that we are juggling hey Ross! Your recent Euro trip looked fantastic 👍
A large syringe for internal injection type basting (chicken, turkey) is available at your local supermarket. It comes with an assortment of VERY large needles. Inexpensive. Buy two... one for the kitchen, one for the shop!
Thanks for showing Slovenia off, trouble is we’re now going to be even more overrun with tourists. If you ever come back we’ll take you to some amazing places. Might even get a sail in if my build is finished by then!
So sorry Nick but I am not sure my channel will boost your tourism numbers,but you live in a beautiful country and I would love to sail with you out of Korper and around Istria.Just gorgeous.All the best a good luck with the build.Ross
Thanks Martin, I bet you guys are cooling off now, stay warm and summer is on it's way to you. Merry Christmas buddy, thanks for staying tuned all year. Ross
@@LifeOnTheHulls Oh yes, not much heat around here, i am looking forward to get som summer. Merry Christmas to you guys too. I will stay tuned for as long as you make videos ;-). Martin
Small angle cuts can be done with 'skil' or table saws. For a 20 degree chamfer, cut along the start of the angle line, then cut a 2 x 4 at 70 degrees, tack it to the edge of the panel and now you only need to make a 90 degree cut to wind up with 20 degrees on the panel.
You make working with fiberglass so easy. Thanks for sharing the knowledge you have with us. That country has alot of places that look and feel of the area right of my back door. If you ever get a chance to. Look up Blue Ridge Ga USA and you can see the area I grew up in. Keep cool as it heats up down there Ross. As always enjoyed this weeks installment.
I have friends who work in a commercial business making fiberglass tanks and such. During the summers of Texas, they work from 4AM to Noon with most of their resin based operations in the morning when it’s a little under 30c in the early morning and up to 38 or 40c by 2pm on the really hot days. Not only is it too hot for the resins, it’s too hot for humans in their warehouse. A couple of years ago we had over 100 days where it got over 100f or about 38c in the afternoon. It was a tough summer.
I totally understand that working environment.It is so worth mixing up the days tasks to make the most of the temps and it is a battle and changes daily here with blistering heat one day and temperate the next.All the best William and thanks so much for commenting and contributing. Cheers Ross
G'day Rosco, You are making good progress. You showed a picture if the dinette with curved corners in the seat... It may be worth considering building it with square corners so that you can 2 people can lay on the couch, very handy in rough conditions or just kicking back reading a book. Most people that cruise long term prefer strait seating that can be used for laying on. Cheers Rustie.
Hey Rustie.I am with you.I will be making the moulded part then cutting it strait with a rotating rectangular table and square profile lounge to ensure it can be flattened for a passage making bed and more usable.The top part of the dinette forms a moulded piece into the window mullions snd deck part so makes sense to start with it then alter once in place the remainder with foam and fair and complete.Cheers buddy.Ross
@@LifeOnTheHulls Cool, that's the way to go, it is a great spot on passage especially if feeling a bit seasick. You are doing a great job with the videos too!!
The boat will be ready just when you will semi retire from the factory and only do the fun stuff like drinking beers with the wifey and friends on the new boat!
Man, you just need a Ticking Stick! How many times have you heard that? : ) Great to see the progress, and the warm weather. I'm not missing it yet, so you hang onto it for a while longer please.
i use suringes to measure correct amount of hardener when mixing resin, but the work that i did/do is SOOOO much smaller scale than yours. amazing work bro. true craftsman there :)
Straight Bulkheads, as normal for production catamarans, would be far easier but the curves and kinks, and angles make your layout far nicer. I don’t recall seeing the black line diagram for your model before. Very nice.
Hey Sean.Paragliding was popular at Bohijnn Lake 30km from Bled (,lake in the end of the video),where there was another cable car.Wasn't as high as Halstatt but would have been equally amazing.Cheers Ross
Gidday Mark.Test panel has not been sent yet as it goes with a series of inspections that are upcoming in the coming year. Cheers buddy,thanks for checking in.Ross
How much more would it have cost to make the bulkheads out of foam core? The wood always gets rotten . What is the life expectancy of a glass boat? What causes the death of most glass boats? Most that I have seen retired is because of wood rot.
Roscoe you are making rapid progress.👍 With all this plywood work - I am thinking a Tracksaw would have been a worthwhile investment. Why do you not cut the doorways in the bulkheads now and just brace the openings temporarily? Got to be better than climbing up and over.😉
When you're trimming the excess glazes from the panels would a small router and trimming cutter help or is there too much resin on the edge of the ply? Or on straight edges you could clamp a straight bit of timber underneath, aligned with the edge of the ply and then use a router bit with a bottom bearing or for that matter clamp it to the top and use a cutter faith a top bearing. Make the timber wide enough so you won't foul the router with the cramps
Gidday Nic.I have used a router in the past and have had good success with thick laminates ie up to 2mm.Lately I much prefer the oscillating multi tool as the dust is greatly reduced as well as accuracy and danger is definately improved.Green trimming is also a grest way to deal with the excess but in my case when trying to pump out a heap of work on my own I generally just trim with the multi tool.Trimming the laminated foam sheets with a router tends to burn the tip and bearing ,whereas sheathed ply tends to handle the router better.Cheers Ross
Not really, the franna crane has a life capacity of 5000kg at extension with spreader bar., I estimate the hull with bulkheads and modules to be in the vicinity of 3000kg. I know there is around 1100kg of resin and 700kg of cloth in the hull plus modules , tanks etc. I have seen a franna life this hull from a mould with all in place so should not be an issue, if so a bigger crane will be required, but not likely. Cheers Ross.
Ok, now that you have those bits cut. Pull you modules reinforce them replace them then put all your bulkheads in. If not you will probably hate your life getting those modules out. Good luck.
You can save yourself a lot of time and dust trimming the edges of your fiberglass work if you just let it get to that what we call here the green stage or it's not quite solid yet but it's still somewhat pliable and just slice it off with a sharp knife
I have used a router in the past and have had good success with thick laminates ie up to 2mm.Lately I much prefer the oscillating multi tool as the dust is greatly reduced as well as accuracy and danger is definately improved.Green trimming is also a grest way to deal with the excess but in my case when trying to pump out a heap of work on my own I generally just trim with the multi tool.Trimming the laminated foam sheets with a router tends to burn the tip and bearing ,whereas sheathed ply tends to handle the router better.Cheers Ross
Oh dear.As I film myself in this series am gradually working through through my crutch words.It is not until its pointed out how heavily one is reliant on them.Dont gey too drunk.Cheers Ross
In a perfect world the answer would be No.In the real world it could potentially but laminating on a flat surface ensures minimal warp and it is a relatively quick process and given ply is 12mm thick the resin is only ever in the top veneer as well so I guess the effect is minimal.Cheers and thanks for the question3.Ross.
Some say it is important yo relate to the audience for the greater good.Been working with Canadians in kayak factories for too long buddy,but there us a tactic there.You can start to worry when I utter aluminum buddy.Cheers.Ross
About syringes, buy ones with Lure Lock, a screw on tip system, then you can get a syringe to syringe adapter, to fill the epoxy, with a second one, where you pull the vacuum... Also there are different length and size for tips, and even plugs.
Pappy wood have done the woodwork for yua. 👍👍👍
The sun is over the yard arm somewhere in the world so crack a beer when you want. Another great video. Cheers
I love that line of thinking Steve, brilliant, Cheers Rossco
@@LifeOnTheHulls yeah, 15 years in the military kinda gives you a gallows humour outlook.
Headway is Headway, making it look "Un-Complicated". I'm glad I'm not building your Cat, Tiny House is enuff for my mental condition, Beautiful Country you got to visit and I enjoyed the chatter about it all. Keep safe and stay on track, no jumping into white water !!
Saloon mate, a salon is where your missus gets her hair done. Nice video Ross, coming along good. Big thumbs up to you (and Boris LOL).
hi boat looking very good bat a lot of work
Nice video Ross
Wow a great video! Much cooler on the less on camera. Lots of interesting info to see while you speak. Love Slovenia. Tell your wife it’s very pretty and she is too.
From crawling in the bilges to hopping over bulk head, your gluts will be rock hard mate👍🏼 getting there you can almost not see the bilge now.
Were in Spain 🇪🇸 for 4 weeks back in uk 🇬🇧 on 20 dec ,nice to see you had a good time in Europe,you work so hard on the hulls ,good on ya 👍
Ross, your knowledge and sense of humor is amazing, you should be teaching this stuff.
Hah, thanks Jon. I have started a more detailed channel looking at composites and their use in industry etc. All coming soon. "The Composites Shop", stay tuned. Videos are there for Patreons at this stage, and releasing form February .
Great stuff fella, those bulkheads are beautiful. A few episodes back you said Yay! no more climbing up and down the bilges. I thought I heard something in the background, turns out it was the bulkheads laughing ;)
Hey Tim.I have just spent another two weeks in the bilges again.It is now not a joke.I need to get up off the hill floor and glue these floors down.Have a great Christmas buddy and thanks for joining me this year.Cheers Ross
Thank you for sharing your vacation with us. Stopping the fun to film and setting up shots takes time and effort, so thank you!
Hi Ross Nice holiday picks ! 💚 it.
Cheers Andrew.Had an amazing trio.All too far away now.Merry Christmas buddy.Ross
Merry Christmas and I know that you’re doing in the new year cheers bud😜
I'm frigging knackered, translation i am exhausted from the exercise
That is the absolute truth. 30ks a day.4 weeks .Brutal walking holiday.Loved it.Cheers Ross
Wow what a puzzle. It sure is gonna be exciting when that top part will go on finally!
The rate of accelerating progress feels truly amazing ever since you finished up in the bilges and it’s fantastic to see the real recognizable boat coming together. Keep up the great work. Really fun to follow along and thanks for sharing.
Thank you Peter, Although I thought I was finished in the bilges, alas , that was a big mistake on my behalf, lots more scrambling to come. Cheers Buddy. Ross
🤣 Ha! ".. moved the camera's 3 times and forgot the measurement" funny bugger!
I usually measure 3 times to save my skin!
All of the things that we are juggling hey Ross!
Your recent Euro trip looked fantastic 👍
Certainly is a bloody challenge Bruce
.Have a great Christmas buddy and get that amazing boat of yours on the water.Ross
@@LifeOnTheHulls Thanks very much Ross and likewise a 🎄Merry and safe festive season🎅 to you! 🍻
Really nice job of editing your video and mixing your trip in. Most channels just stop puting out content while on vacay.
Love to see the progress and thanks a ton for the tour.
Thanks for the video.
Absolutely brilliant progress mate merry Christmas mate
Merry christmas to you too Rooney.Thanks for keeping up to date buddy. Ross
A large syringe for internal injection type basting (chicken, turkey) is available at your local supermarket. It comes with an assortment of VERY large needles. Inexpensive. Buy two... one for the kitchen, one for the shop!
Thanks for showing Slovenia off, trouble is we’re now going to be even more overrun with tourists. If you ever come back we’ll take you to some amazing places. Might even get a sail in if my build is finished by then!
So sorry Nick but I am not sure my channel will boost your tourism numbers,but you live in a beautiful country and I would love to sail with you out of Korper and around Istria.Just gorgeous.All the best a good luck with the build.Ross
Loving the build and your holiday
Yeah bilge Rat ,and great to see you guys putting up with each other
Excelent video there Ross
very nice traveling video and quite some progress on the boat project.
All the best.
Thanks Martin, I bet you guys are cooling off now, stay warm and summer is on it's way to you. Merry Christmas buddy, thanks for staying tuned all year. Ross
@@LifeOnTheHulls Oh yes, not much heat around here, i am looking forward to get som summer.
Merry Christmas to you guys too.
I will stay tuned for as long as you make videos ;-).
Martin
Small angle cuts can be done with 'skil' or table saws. For a 20 degree chamfer, cut along the start of the angle line, then cut a 2 x 4 at 70 degrees, tack it to the edge of the panel and now you only need to make a 90 degree cut to wind up with 20 degrees on the panel.
You make working with fiberglass so easy. Thanks for sharing the knowledge you have with us. That country has alot of places that look and feel of the area right of my back door. If you ever get a chance to. Look up Blue Ridge Ga USA and you can see the area I grew up in. Keep cool as it heats up down there Ross. As always enjoyed this weeks installment.
I have friends who work in a commercial business making fiberglass tanks and such. During the summers of Texas, they work from 4AM to Noon with most of their resin based operations in the morning when it’s a little under 30c in the early morning and up to 38 or 40c by 2pm on the really hot days. Not only is it too hot for the resins, it’s too hot for humans in their warehouse. A couple of years ago we had over 100 days where it got over 100f or about 38c in the afternoon. It was a tough summer.
I totally understand that working environment.It is so worth mixing up the days tasks to make the most of the temps and it is a battle and changes daily here with blistering heat one day and temperate the next.All the best William and thanks so much for commenting and contributing. Cheers Ross
It's really shaping up nice Ross ! Slovenia looks like Switzerland a bit, will have to add that to the list of future travels...
G'day Rosco, You are making good progress. You showed a picture if the dinette with curved corners in the seat... It may be worth considering building it with square corners so that you can 2 people can lay on the couch, very handy in rough conditions or just kicking back reading a book. Most people that cruise long term prefer strait seating that can be used for laying on. Cheers Rustie.
Hey Rustie.I am with you.I will be making the moulded part then cutting it strait with a rotating rectangular table and square profile lounge to ensure it can be flattened for a passage making bed and more usable.The top part of the dinette forms a moulded piece into the window mullions snd deck part so makes sense to start with it then alter once in place the remainder with foam and fair and complete.Cheers buddy.Ross
@@LifeOnTheHulls Cool, that's the way to go, it is a great spot on passage especially if feeling a bit seasick. You are doing a great job with the videos too!!
The boat will be ready just when you will semi retire from the factory and only do the fun stuff like drinking beers with the wifey and friends on the new boat!
Man, you just need a Ticking Stick! How many times have you heard that? : ) Great to see the progress, and the warm weather. I'm not missing it yet, so you hang onto it for a while longer please.
i use suringes to measure correct amount of hardener when mixing resin, but the work that i did/do is SOOOO much smaller scale than yours. amazing work bro. true craftsman there :)
I have thought of building but at the end of the day, for me, easy to just save the money and buy a larger catamaran and go sailing.
Gerard.
Excellent ! great progress on the boat . Also very enjoyable travelogue . Cheers and Happy Christmas .
Thank you Bob, I really appreciate your following and commenting buddy, cheers Ross
Thanks for the tour and explanations, really starting to be able to visualise the layout, although I wasn’t too sure where the bar will be........? 😉🍺
Straight Bulkheads, as normal for production catamarans, would be far easier but the curves and kinks, and angles make your layout far nicer. I don’t recall seeing the black line diagram for your model before. Very nice.
Will be a pain to achieve.I have a full set of line diagrams for the cat as well as plans.More to come.Happy Christmas buddy.Ross
An overhead crane would make life easier and your back happier. :-)
It was about time to let "Johnny" out of the bilge and let him loose with the string level . Have a great Christmas and new year. Love to all Bewsy
Again with the string linr.Have a magic Christmas buddy and so good to see your youngster graduating.Makes you feel old eh.Safe holidays buddy.
Ross you are an animal!
Cheers buddy.Good to hear from you.Rosco
Ross looks like sloevinea could offer a opportunity for paragliding.
Hey Sean.Paragliding was popular at Bohijnn Lake 30km from Bled (,lake in the end of the video),where there was another cable car.Wasn't as high as Halstatt but would have been equally amazing.Cheers Ross
Looking good as usual. Have you had any feed back after sending off the survey panel for destructive testing yet Ross? Cheers, Mark Schlaikier
Gidday Mark.Test panel has not been sent yet as it goes with a series of inspections that are upcoming in the coming year. Cheers buddy,thanks for checking in.Ross
How much more would it have cost to make the bulkheads out of foam core? The wood always gets rotten . What is the life expectancy of a glass boat? What causes the death of most glass boats? Most that I have seen retired is because of wood rot.
Roscoe you are making rapid progress.👍 With all this plywood work - I am thinking a Tracksaw would have been a worthwhile investment.
Why do you not cut the doorways in the bulkheads now and just brace the openings temporarily? Got to be better than climbing up and over.😉
Thanks Norman.I a have a couple of doorways cut in the Port side bulkhead whuch is helping.A tracksaw would have been a great investment.Cheers Ross
When you're trimming the excess glazes from the panels would a small router and trimming cutter help or is there too much resin on the edge of the ply?
Or on straight edges you could clamp a straight bit of timber underneath, aligned with the edge of the ply and then use a router bit with a bottom bearing or for that matter clamp it to the top and use a cutter faith a top bearing. Make the timber wide enough so you won't foul the router with the cramps
Gidday Nic.I have used a router in the past and have had good success with thick laminates ie up to 2mm.Lately I much prefer the oscillating multi tool as the dust is greatly reduced as well as accuracy and danger is definately improved.Green trimming is also a grest way to deal with the excess but in my case when trying to pump out a heap of work on my own I generally just trim with the multi tool.Trimming the laminated foam sheets with a router tends to burn the tip and bearing ,whereas sheathed ply tends to handle the router better.Cheers Ross
Any concern about lifting the hull off of the mould with the weight of all the modules and glassed bulkheads?
Not really, the franna crane has a life capacity of 5000kg at extension with spreader bar., I estimate the hull with bulkheads and modules to be in the vicinity of
3000kg. I know there is around 1100kg of resin and 700kg of cloth in the hull plus modules , tanks etc. I have seen a franna life this hull from a mould with all in place so should not be an issue, if so a bigger crane will be required, but not likely. Cheers Ross.
King Size Bed!
Now there's an idea.Hah.Cheers buddy.Happy Christmas,hope the smoke clears for you up there in Syders..Rossco
Ok, now that you have those bits cut. Pull you modules reinforce them replace them then put all your bulkheads in. If not you will probably hate your life getting those modules out. Good luck.
You can save yourself a lot of time and dust trimming the edges of your fiberglass work if you just let it get to that what we call here the green stage or it's not quite solid yet but it's still somewhat pliable and just slice it off with a sharp knife
OMG, beautiful, where do you find all these places?
Nena
looks like i missed alot on my trip through Slovinia...
So much yo see in the Socca valley as well.I will go back one day.Loved it.Cheers Ross
Does a router work atall for cutting around the bulkhead sections for trimming the fiberglass? either green or hard trimming?
I have used a router in the past and have had good success with thick laminates ie up to 2mm.Lately I much prefer the oscillating multi tool as the dust is greatly reduced as well as accuracy and danger is definately improved.Green trimming is also a grest way to deal with the excess but in my case when trying to pump out a heap of work on my own I generally just trim with the multi tool.Trimming the laminated foam sheets with a router tends to burn the tip and bearing ,whereas sheathed ply tends to handle the router better.Cheers Ross
Before you start this video go get your best shooting Whiskey and shoot one every time Ross says "here" you'll be out in 5 minutes... hahaha...
Oh dear.As I film myself in this series am gradually working through through my crutch words.It is not until its pointed out how heavily one is reliant on them.Dont gey too drunk.Cheers Ross
11 shots in 5 minuted.Ooh thst will be a big night..Sorry team.Need to write a script to satisfy the critics.
Does the ply bow on the side you are laminating because it is wet??
In a perfect world the answer would be No.In the real world it could potentially but laminating on a flat surface ensures minimal warp and it is a relatively quick process and given ply is 12mm thick the resin is only ever in the top veneer as well so I guess the effect is minimal.Cheers and thanks for the question3.Ross.
That river looks like the river used in Werner Herzog Nosferatu movie
It is a beautiful river system and an amazing gorge , the entire region is simpy breathtaking. Cheers Ross
Can't drink all day if you don't start in the morning lol
That is a great point Will. Cheers Ross
Use a plastic bag to pipe the epoxy into seringue
That would have been a great idea if I had a lot of it to do in this case a 2 minute job.Cheers buddy.Ross
2x4? Ross, yer in Oz mate.
Some say it is important yo relate to the audience for the greater good.Been working with Canadians in kayak factories for too long buddy,but there us a tactic there.You can start to worry when I utter aluminum buddy.Cheers.Ross
About syringes, buy ones with Lure Lock, a screw on tip system, then you can get a syringe to syringe adapter, to fill the epoxy, with a second one, where you pull the vacuum...
Also there are different length and size for tips, and even plugs.
Sounds like Janet's revving you for being too slow mate.Enjoy Europe it's a beautiful place,but you pay to use the loo.